Friday, May 15, 2009

Just a quick reminder, there will be an all-day Zazen thing this Saturday, May 16th, at Hill Street Center. That's tomorrow for those of you who are calendar challenged. All details are on the links over to your left, so I ain't writin' 'em down again, you lazy good-for-nothings!

There will be no oryoki lunch. This means you do not have to register ahead of time. The point of registering ahead of time was so we could get a head count and make the right number of lunches. But if there's no lunch, there's no need for pre-registering. So to make that easier, here's a formula:

oryoki lunch served = you must pre-registerno oryoki lunch served = you don't have to pre-register

Good? OK!

Bring your own grub (like I'll be doing) or buy something on Main St. around the corner. Some of us will eat together. You don't have to.

I will be there. But I am fucking exhausted from the tour and the last thing I want to do is talk a lot. So we'll have the usual chatting session afterward. But there will be no lecture or dharma talk. In fact I'd prefer not to talk much at all. I'll just nod and go "um-hm" or "uh-ah." So if you're coming, come to sit, not to hear me talk. OK?

Those of you who want to hear me talk should show up the next morning, Sunday May 17th at 11 am at Dharma Punx in Hollywood 4300 Melrose (between Heliotrope and Vermont).

And if you wanna hear me talk even more tune in that same night at Midnight to INDIE 103.1 (on-line only now) for my appearance on the SuicideGirls Radio show. I think I'm on the second hour of the show, and it's available as a podcast after the live broadcast.

Once again Brad is rejecting core zen principles and practices in faeor of doing things his own way. Does he not see how incredibly childish and selfish it is to not feed people who sit with him? Egotist bastard.

"There will be no dharma talk"

Brad obviously believes his mere presence is enough to effect supreme enlightenment. He claims to be a teacher and now refuses to even teach. WTF is up with that? Crooked fraud.

Another great article Brad! You rock! That was so deep and helpful. Thankyou. I really enjoyed listening to you cough when I saw you at your last appearance. You're the greatest zen teacher in the universe dude. Ignore all the deluded haters here. All the psts here are crap anyway, except mine.

Disappear for a few months...lo and behold, the same old bullshit. Brad, don't fool yourself, get a fuckin' job.After defending you for a couple a years on this blog, I finally wake up and see thru your B.S. I'm afraid you've been blinded by "flowers in space". And by the way, in response to your last entry, Van Gogh didn't achieve fame or wealth 'til after he was dead. Just "art" for "art's" sake. A lust for life?

Alphonzen, your thoughts on Brad's integrity are based on his writing. I don't see how you can come to that conclusion...the same goes for people who bitch about his lack of integrity.

If you don't like his style of teaching, fine, find a teacher with a style you do like and post comments on their blog. It is a bit unfair to use his own blog as a platform to attack him (criticism is fine, being an ass isn't).

Despite meditating for so many years, people are still seeing people as "other" and feel the need to defend or attack this "other""

Yea bro, I know what you mean. Those stupid deluded people still see people as "other". I'm glad I'm not deluded like they are. Unenlightened people think they are separate. What a bunch of fools. I know we are one. They need to get a clue. We are all one and if you can't grasp that you're just a dick.

"Yea bro, I know what you mean. Those stupid deluded people still see people as "other". I'm glad I'm not deluded like they are. Unenlightened people think they are separate. What a bunch of fools. I know we are one. They need to get a clue. We are all one and if you can't grasp that you're just a dick."

OK alphonso, we get it. You're being ironic, and none of us, including you, know shit. At least that's the face-saving ploy you're now holding your tediously non-existent self together with. Now what? More attention seeking self-validation - just like the rest of us?

I think the problem here is that Brad does a great job getting people interested and trying and talking about zen but then they get angry at him when they feel alone and unsupported in their practice and he is unavailable to help them and they don't have found another teacher to help them. There are online communities such as Treeleaf with real teachers and if there is a teacher in your area give them an opportunity to teach you.

"What is this supersize you speak of? Time and space are illusions and the whole idea of 'super' lies in dualistic thinking" *scribbles down wikipedia reference and hands it to clerk* "Learn to throw off your conditioning."